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Medallia will deliver user experience technology to help the Department of Health and Human Services address health-related public sector issues and augment key services for HHS customers. The company said Thursday it offers a government-tailored platform that helps agencies determine how to improve citizen experience based on feedback data.

Dave Clark, CEO of worldwide consumer business at Amazon, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden saying the company is willing to help with the country’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Reuters reported Thursday.

Craig Halliday, chief executive officer of Unanet, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s advancements to its customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Additionally, he addressed how COVID-19 has impacted customers and businesses, as well as how the pandemic will change processes and the market moving forward. 

Government affairs leaders at Washington-based technology companies discussed policy issues they expect the Biden administration to address once it takes office and one of those is the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it applies to broadband internet access and workforce, GeekWire reported Tuesday.

Continuus Pharmaceuticals has secured a $69.3M contract with the Department of Defense to use its integrated continuous manufacturing technology for developing critical active pharmaceutical ingredients and final dosage form medicines used for COVID-19 treatment.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and InductiveHealth Informatics have partnered to offer a disease surveillance system designed to help users assess the health of their communities.

The Association of Government Accountants and Grant Thornton’s public sector arm have released a new survey describing how chief financial officers from federal and state government agencies manage the financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and outlining several recommendations agency CFOs should consider as they navigate through the health crisis.

A coalition of technology and health companies has launched an initiative that intends to enable individuals to obtain digital access to their COVID-19 vaccination records based on interoperable, open standards. Coalition members that are advancing the Vaccination Credential Initiative include Cerner, CARIN Alliance, Change Healthcare, Evernorth, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Mitre, Safe Health, Oracle, Salesforce and The Commons Project Foundation.

Charles Woodburn, CEO of BAE Systems, has said defense companies support the global economy through export activities and technology investments that help create high skilled jobs. “I strongly believe we can have a key role to play in restoring the economies of the countries in which we operate,” Woodburn wrote in a guest piece for Defense News published Monday.

Planet has secured a deal with NASA to continue the provision of satellite imagery technologies to the agency until September as part of the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program.

Tactical gear and equipment provider Maddox Defense transferred to a new headquarters along Cranswick Road in Houston on Dec. 1 following a six-month business operation expansion effort that began in March 2020.

Jim Richberg, public sector field chief information security officer at Fortinet, said government entities should employ flexible digital platforms capable of enabling better productivity and higher return of investment and securing networks amid the pandemic-driven work-from-home trend.

Hawk Carlisle, president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association, wrote in an article published Monday in National Defense magazine that NDIA gives the defense industrial base a score of 75 and a C rating in the “Vital Signs 2021" report set to be released in December. Carlisle said the score indicates that the defense industrial base continues to face a challenging environment amid the COVID19 pandemic.

Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner of K2 Integrity, chairman of Consilient, and 2016 Wash100 Award winner recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the rebranding of K2 Intelligence FIN into K2 Integrity, the origin and continued development of Consilient, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the potential plans for his companies heading into 2021. 

Lockheed Martin has shipped 123 F-35 aircraft in 2020, meeting its revised target number of at least 117 delivered jets amid the COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding delays. The company said Monday it delivered 74 units of the aircraft to the U.S. military, 18 to foreign military sales customers and 31 to international partners this year.